I'm sorry, but on the face of it this plan sounds like the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Can someone with some physics background back me up here?
A scientist in Oklahoma is planning to build giant, anti-comet airbags that can be sent into space and inflated to deflect the course of world-threating lumps of celestial rock.
Far better to send up a space ship equipped with a massive airbag that could be inflated to several miles wide and used to gently buffet the invading solar body away from a collision course with earth.
"It seems a safe, simple and realistic idea," Burchard told the magazine's latest edition.
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